A Dependent Media: The Ellison Family is Now Poised to Control CBS, Paramount, CNN and TikTok, and thereby Refine Single Source Propaganda and Messaging for Elites

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

 Dependent Media – Establishment (dependent) media is both unwilling and incapable of reporting events truthfully, accurately, or without extreme bias. News coverage is just that—covering-up-(masking) and distorting the events and those wielding the power behind the events (those reported and deliberately unreported). News coverage has simply become “disinfotainment” with the sole purpose of perception and knowledge containment as well as realitY concealment. You report in the interests of those who paying you to do so. (See: MEDIA, NBC & NEWS)

From [HERE] and [HERE] Trump loyalist and C.I.A. contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual.

But Ellison is not alone.

Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.

Media Monopoly

Paramount Skydance — an Ellison-owned company — is in pole position to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery, a conglomerate that controls gigantic film and television studios, streaming services like HBO Max and Discovery+, franchises like DC Comics, and TV networks such as HBO, TNT, Discovery Channel, TLC, Food Network, and CNN.

This lead is largely due to Ellison’s proximity to President Donald Trump, who will ultimately have to sign off on such a deal.

Ellison has already spoken to senior White House officials about axing CNN hosts and content that Trump is said to dislike, including anchors, Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar.

It is this willingness to completely re-orientate the network’s political direction that has made him the White House’s preferred purchaser of Warner Brothers Discovery. He is reportedly so wealthy that he can afford to pay in cash.

Ellison, whose net worth stands at a staggering $278 billion, has been on a media spending spree of late. Earlier this year, he provided the funds for Skydance to purchase Paramount Global, another gigantic conglomerate that controls such products as CBS, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Streaming and Showtime.

Immediately upon being appointed CEO of CBS News, Larry’s son, David, began drastically re-orientating the network’s political outlook, firing staff, pushing it to become pro-Trump, and appointing self-described “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief.

The Ellison family, however, is far from finished. In September, President Trump signed an executive order approving a proposal to force through the sale of social media platform TikTok to an American consortium led by Ellison-owned tech company, Oracle.

Under the planned arrangement, Oracle will oversee the platform’s security and operations, giving the world’s second-richest man effective control over the platform that more than 60 percent of Americans under 30 years of age use for news and entertainment.

Trump himself stated that he was extremely pleased that Oracle would be controlling the platform. “It’s owned by Americans, and very sophisticated Americans,” he said.

The Ellison family’s sudden venture into the realm of media and communications has shocked many, with senior media figures sounding the alarm.

Longtime CBS News anchor, Dan Rather, warned that “we all have to be concerned about the consolidation of huge billionaires getting control of nearly all of the major news outlets.”

“It is a particularly tough time for anybody working at CBS News,” he stated, citing pressure to change coverage to be more pro-Trump. “I think if [the Ellisons] were to buy CNN, it would change CNN forever, and it might be another very serious wound to CBS News,” he concluded. [MORE]

Epstein File Dump Confirms Epstein Worked with Mossad (or It worked for him) but Also the Rothschild Banking Dynasty and the British Royals

In its Lathered Up Search for Trump Porn in Epstein Files, Massa Media Ignores [Conceals] Epstein's Relationship with Israel and his Prominent Role in Advancing the Israeli Cyberweapons Industry

From [HERE] With an avalanche of new documents released by the House Oversight Committee, and looming legislation mandating further disclosures, the press has renewed its relentless coverage of the life and times of Jeffrey Epstein. Yet, with some notable exceptions, a major part of his life’s work has remained outside the media’s gaze, his relationship with the state of Israel and his prominent role in helping advance the Israeli cyberweapons industry. And so our series continues.

On July 31, 2019, just eleven days before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell, his connection to the Rothschild banking dynasty became the subject of major public controversy.

Anonymous sources informed Bloomberg of a 2015 visit to Epstein’s New York mansion by baroness Ariane de Rothschild, the CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group, a storied private bank and one of the largest Swiss financial institutions by assets under management. The bank’s spokesperson denied any relationship to the notorious American sex trafficker. Epstein was found dead on August 10, 2019.

Four years later, after Epstein’s meeting calendars were leaked to the Wall Street Journal, the bank finally admitted that de Rothschild had met with Epstein as part of her “normal duties at the bank between 2013 and 2019.” Epstein provided introductions to U.S. finance leaders and law firms and provided tax and risk consulting, the bank disclosed, while also helping de Rothschild personally on “a couple of occasions” with advice on estate management.

The bank remained vague about the actual nature of its relationship with the convicted sex trafficker. Newly released documents reveal that Epstein and de Rothschild’s personal relationship was much closer than the bank previously acknowledged. According to emails released by the U.S. House Oversight Committee on November 12, Epstein planned to see a Broadway play with de Rothschild in January 2014, and scheduled a private trip with her to Montreal that September.

A second set of documents—the leaked inbox of former Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak, hacked by Handala and uploaded by non-profit whistleblower Distributed Denial of Secrets—sheds light on Epstein’s efforts to leverage his personal friendship with de Rothschild to raise funds for the development of Israeli cyberweapons. After Barak’s retirement from government in 2013, he recruited Pavel Gurvich, a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ secretive Unit 81 technology unit, to source cyberweapons startups from the Israeli intelligence community. Gurvich did not respond to a request for comment. [MORE]

So-Called 'Black Jan 6th Bomber' Sounds Like Government Bullshit: Grok Says Photos Of The Jan 6th Pipe Bomber Don't Match Up With The Video!

So Called "Black" Mayor of NYC, who Delivered Nothing of Tangible Value to Black People, Signs a Pro-Israel Executive Order On His Way Out of Office as a Final Gesture to His Masters

ANOTHER BOHICAN COMES AND GOES. Eric Adams signs a pro-Israel executive order on his way out: On the same day, outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued Executive Order 60, which directs city agencies and pension-fund trustees to steer clear of procurement or investment decisions that could be construed as discriminating against Israel, which urges contracting officers to avoid anything resembling a boycott of Israel, and which tells mayoral pension trustees to oppose divestment from Israeli assets. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

BOHICAN – Bend Over Here It Comes Again Negro. ☻Sniggers are the last of the buck-dancing Bohicans. “I am the last of the Bohicans,” he said, “…and I will never be broken. I am the last and worst of my breed—and the final token.” (See: Snigger, Coin-Operated, Samboism, Uncle Tom, Possumist, Turdistan, Piece-Activist, Niggeroe & GOP)

While Doing Little for the Black Communities in Brooklyn, Coin-Operated Rolebot Hakeem Jeffries Solicited Jeffrey Epstein for Donations and Sweated Him for a Hook Up w/Obama

From [HERE] A firm representing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) solicited Jeffrey Epstein for donations and to get him to attend a dinner with then-President Barack Obama, newly released files revealed. 

Thousands of pages of documents from Epstein’s estate published by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week included a 2013 email from a representative of Jeffries’ asking Epstein to meet with and give money to the Democrat leader.

House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) exposed the email on the House floor during consideration of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed 427-1:

https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1990866192358055989

New York City-based firm Dynamic SRG sent Epstein an email referring to Jeffries, who had entered congressional office just a few months prior, as “Brooklyn’s Obama.”

“Hakeem is committed to electing a Democrat majority in 2014 and is encouraging his friends to participate in the DCCC/DSCC [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee/Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] fundraising dinner with President Obama this coming Monday night,” Dynamic SRG’s Lisa Rossi wrote.

Rossi went on to encourage Epstein to call or email her if he would like to “get involved” with the dinner or get an “opportunity to get to know Hakeem better.”

“… Another email shows fundraisers invited Epstein to an event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to win a majority,” Comer said. “So Hakeem Jeffries’ campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein. That’s what we found in the last document batch.”

At the time of the May 2013 email, Epstein had been out of prison for a few years after serving a 13-month sentence for procuring a child for prostitution.

The Oversight chair went on to emphasize that former President Bill Clinton “must appear for his deposition.” On the floor, Comer misspoke and said “former President Trump,” but his prepared remarks state Clinton. [MORE]

Autonomous Constituents or Subjects to a Master? Poll Finds that 77 % of Democrat Voters “think Israel is committing genocide” but Only 10% of Democrat Puppeticians Agree, Spend Trillions to Massacre

From [HERE] Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a judgment that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch unequivocally proclaimed a year ago. Israeli human-rights organizations have reached the same conclusion. But such clarity is sparse in Congress.

And no wonder. Genocide denial is needed for continuing to appropriate billions of dollars in weapons to Israel, as most legislators have kept doing. Congress members would find it very difficult to admit that Israeli forces are committing genocide while voting to send them more weaponry.

Three weeks ago, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) introduced a resolution titled “Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.” Twenty-one House colleagues, all of them Democrats, signed on as co-sponsors. They account for 10 percent of the Democrats in Congress.

In sharp contrast, a national Quinnipiac Poll found that 77 percent of Democrats “think Israel is committing genocide.” That means there is a 67 percent gap between what the elected Democrats are willing to say and what the people who elected them believe. The huge gap has big implications for the party’s primaries in the midterm elections next year, and then in the race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

One of the likely candidates in that race, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), is speaking out in ways that fit with the overwhelming views of Democratic voters. “I agree with the UN commission’s heartbreaking finding that there is a genocide in Gaza,” he tweeted as autumn began. “What matters is what we do about it – stop military sales that are being used to kill civilians and recognize a Palestinian state.” Consistent with that position, the California congressman was one of the score of Democrats who signed on as co-sponsors of Tlaib’s resolution the day it was introduced.

In the past, signers of such a resolution would have reason to fear the wrath – and the electoral muscle – of AIPAC, the Israel-can-do-no-wrong lobby. But its intimidation power is waning. AIPAC’s support for Israel does not represent the views of the public, a reality that has begun to dawn on more Democratic officeholders. [MORE]

Federal Judge Blocks DHS’ Warrantless Immigration Arrests

From [HERE] A US federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enforcing its policy of warrantless civil immigration arrests without probable cause of escape risk.

The order grants both a preliminary injunction and provisional class certification, and denies a separate motion for final class certification without prejudice, meaning plaintiffs can still refile this request in the future. The provisional class certification includes all individuals arrested in the District of Columbia who were not subject to escape risk assessments prior to their arrest.

Tuesday’s ruling stems from the lawsuit Escobar Molina v. DHS, filed in September. Four individual immigrants and CASA, Inc. challenged DHS policy of conducting warrantless civil immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. without individualized probable cause determinations, following an emergency declaration made in August. The plaintiffs moved for a preliminary injunction and provisional class certification under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(g). The complaint argues that DHS violated federal standards for warrantless arrests under 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(2), which requires the arresting officer to have reason to believe the individual is “likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest.” 

Writing for the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Beryl Howell concluded that the plaintiffs had demonstrated sufficient likelihood of success on their claim that DHS adopted a policy requiring only “reasonable suspicion” rather than probable cause for both unlawful presence and escape risk. The 88-page memorandum opinion, which gives reasons for the order, cited repeated public statements by senior DHS officials, including Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, explicitly stating that warrantless arrests required only “reasonable suspicion.”

The Court rejected DHS’s jurisdictional defenses, holding that 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(5), (b)(9), and (g), which strip district courts of jurisdiction for removal-related matters, do not apply to arrest procedures that are not directly part of the removal process itself. The Court emphasized that being deportable does not automatically establish a likelihood of escape, rejecting arguments that would otherwise conflate the statute’s two distinct probable cause requirements. Tuesday’s injunction requires DHS to transmit the district court’s order to all federal agents with immigration enforcement authority, and it must now document the factual basis for each warrantless arrest. [MORE]

Federal Judge Rules Trump's National Guard Deployment in DC was Unlawful, but Appeals Court says his Race Soldiers Can Stay During Their Review

From [HERE] The Trump administration will be allowed to continue its National Guard deployment in D.C. at least temporarily, pending another appeals court decision, a panel of U.S. Court of Appeals judges said Thursday.

The ruling means the deployment of troops to the nation’s capital could persist beyond Dec. 11, the date a lower-court judge had previously set as a deadline for the administration to halt the mission. Last month, that U.S. District Court judge handed D.C. a preliminary legal win in its lawsuit over the deployment, writing in an opinion that it was illegal and ordering the administration to pause it while litigation proceeds.

The Trump administration then asked the appeals court to intervene and allow the troops to remain longer — and on Thursday, judges with the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals granted an administrative stay in the case, meaning the drawdown of troops will be delayed at least until the appeals court makes an additional ruling.

The court emphasized that Thursday’s decision had nothing to do with the merits of the Trump administration’s arguments in the case and that it merely buys the judges more time. “The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” they wrote. [MORE]

From [HERE] Last week a US federal judge ruled that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC, is unlawful, in District of Columbia v. Trump.

District Judge Jia M. Cobb of the US District Court for the District of Columbia stated in a memorandum opinion that the defendants “exceeded the bounds of their authority under Title 49 of the D.C. Code” by using the DC National Guard (DCNG) for “non-military, crime-deterrence” reasons, through mechanisms like patrols in public spaces. Although Title 49 designates the president as commander in chief of the DCNG, the president is nonetheless limited to “instances in which the relevant civil authorities request” their aid. She further stated that the Department of Defense “lack[s] statutory authority under 32 U.S.C. § 502” to bring in National Guard members from outside the state. According to the court, the code only permits this where the “operations or missions … are authorized under state law.” While granting preliminary relief, the court issued an administrative stay for 21 days to allow time for an appeal.

The suit was brought by the District of Columbia against the Trump administration on September 4. The complaint alleged that the use of the National Guard affects the District’s “sovereignty and right to self-governance … inflaming tensions.” An executive order declaring a “crime emergency” in DC was issued on August 11, and a second order deploying the National Guard was issued on August 25. Roughly 2,200 members of the National Guard are currently in DC.

‘Locking Up the Worst of the Worst’? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record [and are 100% non-white]

From [HERE] President Donald Trump and his administration have claimed repeatedly that the immigration raids that have terrorized communities nationwide this year are focused on getting the “worst of the worst” off the streets and out of the country, but new detention data filed by the Department of Justice on Friday shows that only a tiny fraction of the more than 600 people who remain in detention in the Chicago area from raids over recent months have any criminal record, bolstering anecdotal evidence that many of those targeted for by ICE and federal border agents are hard-working, law-abiding members of society.

According to the Chicago Tribune:

The Trump administration on Friday released the names of 614 people whose Chicago-area immigration arrests may have violated a 2022 consent decree, and only 16 of them have criminal histories that present a “high public safety risk.”

The list was produced as part of an ongoing lawsuit alleging immigration agents have repeatedly violated the terms of the in-court settlement, mostly during “Operation Midway Blitz,” that puts a high bar on making so-called warrantless arrests without a prior warrant or probable cause.

The newspaper reports that of the 16 people arrested with criminal histories—representing just 2.6% of the total listed in the filing— “five involved domestic battery, two were related to drunken driving, and one allegedly had an unidentified criminal history in another country.” None had criminal backgrounds that included worst-of-the-worst offenses like rape or murder.

Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered the government to provide more information about the more than 600 people being held in detention and suggested he would order their release if compelling public-safety reasons were not presented. While ordering the immediate release of 13 people he deemed were arrested unlawfully, Cummings gave the government until Friday to release the additional information on those being held. [MORE]

Border Patrol Cops are Monitoring Law Abiding Drivers and Detaining People Deemed to Have ‘Suspicious’ Travel Patterns

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.

The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.

Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over — often for reasons cited such as speeding, failure to signal, the wrong window tint or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar. [MORE]

New ACLU Study says Most Juries in Death Penalty Cases of Black Defendants are All White, Violating the Constitution

From [HERE] To serve in a capital trial, potential jury members must declare that they are willing to impose the death penalty. This process, known as “death qualification,” erases large swaths of otherwise jury-eligible adults from the jury box and results in death penalty decisions—including the threshold and vital question of guilty or innocent —being made by a skewed pool of jurors who do not represent our communities.

The Constitution requires juries to carefully weigh mitigating circumstances in a separate penalty phase of a trial when deciding between life imprisonment without parole and death. The Constitution also requires the jury’s decision to express the “conscience of the community.” But, because of death qualification (which the Constitution does not require), juries making these decisions do not accurately reflect our communities or their values. Even though a juror who is unwilling to impose a death sentence can still listen to the evidence, weigh the credibility of witnesses, deliberate and even find a defendant guilty and impose the lawful sentence of life imprisonment, death qualification prevents the approximately 40% of Americans who now oppose the death penalty from participating in this important part of our democracy.

Decades of empirical research shows that death qualification results in juries that are more likely to convict, and more likely to reach hasty decisions and ignore mitigating evidence the Constitution says must be considered. Death qualification also results in the disproportionate exclusion of groups that are more likely to oppose the death penalty, including Black people, especially Black women, other people of color, women, and followers of certain religions. The racial divide in support for the death penalty is consistently demonstrated in over thirty years of social science research.1 The resulting capital juries, comprised predominantly of white men, are less likely to deliberate vigorously and more likely to convict and sentence a person to death, especially when the defendant is Black. [MORE]

Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer is Poisoning the Air of Black Residents in a Poor Neighborhood in Memphis

Elon Musk’s pet AI chatbot, Grok comes at a high price: the health of those unfortunate souls who live next to the data center that makes Grok possible.

Located in the Memphis neighborhood of Boxtown, Tennessee, xAI’s “Colossus supercomputer” data center has been mired in controversy ever since its inception, pumping noxious gasses into the air and drying out local faucets. For Musk, it’s the key piece of infrastructure behind AI ambitions — the facility keeping him in the AI race with other tech magnates like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg.

For the predominantly black residents of Boxtown, however, Colossus is turning their neighborhood into a putrid nightmare.

Boxtown is a historically and predominantly African American neighborhood in South Memphis, Tennessee, founded by formerly enslaved people shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863

Speaking to The Times, 81-year-old Boxtown resident Willie Joe Stafford blamed the mucus he regularly hacks up is the result of Colossus’ pollution. “The people who live round here are blacks,” he said. “So they think they can do what they want.”

Another resident, Sarah Gladney, explained that xAI has changed the character of the neighborhood, which wasn’t exactly pretty before.

“Prior to xAI, we were dealing with more of a waste smell. Like poop. This is more like a chemical-type smell,” she explained. At 71, Gladney told the publication she hardly ever opens her windows for fresh air, and no longer goes on her daily walks.

“We have to put our lungs up in exchange for profit,” 66-year-old Boxtown resident Batsell Booker told The Times. His daughter, Booker said, is recovering from cancer — a disease Boxtown has no shortage of. [MORE]

Data Shows Black Students in Public Fool Systems are Less Likely to be Offered Early Algebra, which Limits the Odds they will get Advanced Courses and Higher-Paying Jobs

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

Public School System – a place where children are having unprotected education. 2) a syndromatic exercise in conformity and blind obedience to so-called “authority” (disguised repression). 3) systematic planned violence meted out on children and young adults—held hostage and hostile—daily, hourly, quarantined from the natural rhythm of things in life through Pavlovian bells and shrink-wrapped prefabricated and curriculum and distorted history. 4) a training boot camp for life-long slavery and indentured servitude to gangbankers and the Corporate State in a society created and based in violence, governed by fear, propaganda, psychogenic money and power.

From [HERE] Schools are less likely to offer Latino and Black students early algebra classes, effectively shutting these students off from advanced courses and higher-paying jobs, according to research released Tuesday.

Algebra has traditionally been offered to teens starting in ninth grade, but a growing body of research shows that students who take the class in eighth grade are more likely to succeed in high school math, pursue STEM majors in college and earn more money as adults.

Nationwide, 3 in 5 schools offer students the option to take early algebra, according to research from NWEA, a national testing group. Schools in rural areas, high-poverty schools and campuses with a large Black or Latino student body were less likely to offer the class.

“Algebra in eighth grade is not just another math class,” said Daniel Long, one of the report’s researchers. “This is closing off access to advanced math pathways for many students.”

Even if a school does offer algebra to eighth-graders, access is often determined by a child’s race or ethnicity, Long added. More than half of Asian eighth-graders took the course when their school offered it, compared with 22 percent of Latino students and 17 percent of Black students, data shows.

Those gaps, Long said, persisted even among top-achieving students. Among high-performing pupils, about 60 percent of Black students are placed into algebra in eighth grade, compared with 84 percent of Asian students and 68 percent of White and Latino students.

“Placement, not ability, seems to be the driver,” Long said. Researchers examined 162,000 children in 22 states.

Most schools use test scores, teacher recommendations and parent requests to determine who gets to take eighth-grade algebra. But those methods can be biased, said Allison Socol, vice president of P-12 policy, practice and research at EdTrust, a national education nonprofit that has also found disparities in who gets to take challenging classes.

“Because of implicit biases, racial biases, and mindsets about who is and who isn’t a math person, Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds — even when they demonstrate that they are ready and they are very clear that they are eager for those courses — are still shut out,” Socol said. “Across the U.S., in every state, students of color and students from low-income backgrounds are often shut out of rigorous courses.”

Teachers tend to underestimate children of color, even when they perform similarly to White students, a New York University researcher found. Wealthier parents tend to advocate more than less affluent families, according to research from Rand. [MORE]

Laboring Black Woman Forced to Give Birth in Parking Lot After Racist Suspects @ Indy Hospital Turned Her Away [Racists Know the Difference btw Right and Wrong but Ignore it when race is a variable]

Two pregnant Black women nearly 1,000 miles apart were ready to do what many do every day: welcome new bundles of joy, and just before the start of the holiday season. Instead, the health of both women and their babies was put at risk after hospital staff did not immediately provide the needed care.

One woman was discharged and delivered her baby on the side of an Indiana highway, while the other nearly gave birth in a Texas hospital’s emergency waiting room. Both women survived, but are still reeling from ordeals that have drawn national attention — in part, because they were captured on video and shared on social media.

Each instance highlights the long-standing and rising disparities in health outcomes for Black women, who die at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth, according to a 2023 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

While maternal mortality rates for white, Hispanic and Asian women fell in 2023, according to the CDC report, the rate for Black women barely budged.

Now, the women’s families, health organizations and civil rights advocates are urging the medical profession to address systemic racism that they say perpetuates Black women’s experiences.

‘I felt dismissed’

Mercedes Wells’ water had already broken when a nurse at Indiana’s Franciscan Health Crown Point hospital checked on her in triage, a room typically designated for women in earlier trimesters of pregnancy.

Wells, already a mother of three, knew the baby could come at any minute. The nurse did not believe she was going into labor, Wells recalled.

“She still suggested that I be discharged and I begged, ‘No, I can’t be discharged. Please don’t discharge me because I am about to have this baby,’” Wells, 38, told The Associated Press from her Chicago area home in Dolton, Illinois.

“I began to wail because I was in so much pain, and my feelings were hurt because that was happening to me. So I let out a cry, you know? The nurses showed no compassion, none of them,” said Wells, whose experience was captured in a now-viral video of her crying in pain as nurses pushed her toward the exit.

But she was out of time. Wells felt the baby coming.

Her husband, Leon, loaded her into their car and sped away hoping to reach another hospital. Thereafter, in the early morning hours of Nov. 16, he pulled over on a Lake County highway and delivered their daughter.

Wells said the nurses she saw were all white, and all assured her that concerns were relayed to the attending physician.

“I felt dismissed. I felt ignored, disregarded as a whole,” she said. “I’m dealing with this pain, and they’re all watching me from the nurse’s station as if it’s normal to send someone out in that much pain.”

Franciscan Health Crown Point said in a statement that both the nurse and physician involved in Wells’ ordeal were fired and that the hospital has mandated cultural competency training for all labor and delivery staff. [MORE]

Viral Video Shows Pregnant Black Woman who Gave Birth Screaming in Pain as White Staff Delay Care at Dallas Hospital [racists Ignore Morality, Right and Wrong in the Presence of Color]

What is The Psychopathic Racial Personality? A shocking TikTok video has captured the harrowing moment a heavily pregnant woman in Texas went into active labour, only to be left waiting as hospital staff continued asking intake questions instead of rushing her to care.

The distressing clip, filmed at the Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, shows the woman doubled over and screaming in agony while seated in a wheelchair. Her companion pleads for help, shouting in frustration as staff appear to ignore the urgency of the situation. [MORE]

Massa Media Facilitates Trump’s Criminal Aggression against Venezuela

From [HERE] Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials prosecuted Nazi leaders for criminal aggression against nations, the Trump administration is blatantly doing the same against Venezuela. Yet there is not a word of condemnation in the U.S. media or among European allies.

In the past two months, more than 80 people have been killed by U.S. air strikes on over 20 civilian boats in the waters off the Latin American country. The Trump administration has provided no evidence to back up claims that these killings were carried out against alleged drug traffickers. They are extrajudicial executions, or murder.

This week, Trump has designated the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the head of a foreign terrorist organization, an alleged narcotics cartel that is supposedly flooding the U.S. with drugs. Again, no evidence is provided. Venezuela dismissed the allegations as a ridiculous lie whose ulterior motive is the illegal use of U.S. military force for regime change in Caracas.

The pretext of combating the illicit drug trade should be seen as transparent. The largest deployment of U.S. military force in the Caribbean since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is in itself a demonstration that the real agenda is not about interdicting drugs.

Venezuela’s role in narcotics trafficking to the United States is not significant compared with other Latin American countries, according to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime. Colombia and Peru are more important as cocaine sources. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has denoted Mexico as the biggest source of illicit fentanyl, which is responsible for most American overdose deaths.

The bigger picture is, of course, the objective to get rid of a socialist government in Venezuela and for the U.S. to gain control of the country’s vast oil reserves, the largest known reserves on the planet. Allied to that major reason is the desire in Washington to stymie China’s legitimate growing strategic partnerships across Latin America. As Donald Ramotar, the former president of Guyana, and other observers pointed out in a recent roundtable discussion sponsored by the Schiller Institute, the United States is flexing its muscles in its presumed “backyard” to try to restore its failing global power.

This should be obvious, as it is criminal. The United Nations Charter explicitly outlaws every aspect of Trump’s conduct towards Venezuela. Article 2:3 mandates that all disputes must be settled through peaceful means. Article 2:4 prohibits the use or threat of military force.

In other words, the Trump administration is clearly engaging in criminal aggression, the very conduct that the UN Charter was established in 1945 to banish after the horrific experience of Nazi crimes against peace that resulted in World War II. [MORE]

Glenn Greenwald Dismantles the Lies Justifying War with Venezuela